American Epic Space Opera Franchise: Star Wars

That number is a far stretch from $4.5 billion right? Well the Star wars franchise includes much more than just the 6 movies box office totals. The video and DVD sales are about $3 billion 775 million as said by statistic brain. This includes all DVDs and movies from all 6 movies and Star wars the clone wars. The video game sales grossed $2.9 billion. These games range from the oldest super Nintendo games to the newer PlayStation and Xbox games. The book sales have grossed $1.82 billion. This is an example of just 1 of the 23 books my boyfriend alone has, all together there are over 100 books written. The toy sales have grossed 12 billion this includes all collectibles, action figures, and toys such as puzzles, Legos, coloring books, or bobble heads that talk. The last bit is considered “other” which includes licensing, television shows, and merchandise grossed appx. $1.304 billion to date. Merchandise includes Pez despisers, posters, and any other Star Wars affiliated product.

Lucas’ movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was not only the biggest sensation of its time,”...winning seven Academy Awards…” (Kiminski 10) , but also a substantial influence on the toy world. Lucas stated in his interview, “Ten year old boys will

Star Wars: A New Hope directed by George Lucas was produced in 1997 and has many examples of archetypal patterns. Joseph Campbell was an american mythologist and he believed in something called a monomyth or “a hero’s journey” which was a theory that all stories are fundamentally the same. Campbell believed that these patterns were found in all stories and wrote a story called “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” he talks about these types of archetypal patterns found in all stories. The idea of a heros stages of their journey and how the hero goes through stages of transformation. The movie Star Wars: A New Hope fits into Campbell’s archetypal pattern and in doing so provides a certain truth about being separated from Luke’s old life and being

Star Wars defined the modern Science-Fiction film, but still to inspiration from old fairy tales. The central character, Luke Skywalker, begins as a peasant, like many other fairy tale heroes (Jack and the Beanstalk, Sword in the Stone, etc.), and later meets an old Jedi/wizard named Obi-Wan Kenobi, similar to wizards from other fairy tales (Merlin, Balthazar, etc.), who moves the story forward and teaches the hero the ways of the force, which is as a stand in for fairy tale magic, Throughout the film, Lucas uses other elements from fairy tales, such as the damsel-in-distress of Princess Leia, and the evil kingdom of the Galactic Empire. Lucas clearly appreciates these fairy tales, the parallels aren't parodied or played for

Recently, we, as a galaxy, celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the first “Star Wars” movie. Since that fateful premiere in May 1977, the franchise has produced about a dozen films, numerous TV shows, thousands of spoofs and parodies, and millions of devoted fans. Here’s an overview of the series.

George Lucas Imagine a boy walking down the street on a crisp Halloween night. He walks by many people and comes across many characters with blasters and whips. He asks the characters what movie they got their costumes from, and they told the boy they were from two very famous movie series. He decides to watch the movie series and he loves it. These series of movies are Indiana Jones and Star Wars, two of George Lucas’ many successful series.

The dramatic war-like classic of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it is Star Wars. It made a huge impact in the 70s for its THX digitally mastered sound, new visual effects, but most of all the marvelous theme, without which, Star Wars would not be half the film it is now. It took the science fiction genre to a whole new era. Therefore, Star Wars IV is the best science fiction movies of all times.

Star Wars is a classic representation of the science fiction genre of the 1970s and 1980s because it has helped to popularize

All 9 Star Wars movies combined have earned a total of $37 Billion Dollars all over the world! The First Star Wars Episode came out on May 25, 1977. They are still continuing the saga to this day with the release of Episode 8: The Last Jedi. Disney still has plans for at least 2 more Star Wars movies with Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Episode 9. This would make Star Wars one of the longest running movie series.

Star Wars was originally released in 1977 and became one of the largest grossing films of all time. George Lucas developed two additional sequels and a prequel that developed the extremely successful franchise. The first film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope placed the viewers into the middle of a civil war between The Republic and The Empire. The story follows a young Jedi Knight (Luke Skywalker) and his journey to defeat (with a lot of help) The Empire. As the story progresses through the the next movie, more characters are introduced and Luke becomes closer and closer to completing his destiny of defeating the Empire. This is done through futuristic battles in space

These experimental films would lead to his huge films like Star Wars in 1977. The first business he co-founded was America Zoetrope. His first full-length film was THX 1138. George Lucas is most famous for the Star Wars saga and Indiana Jones. He is also known for contributing to the children’s show known as Phineas and Ferb. He wrote for the cartoon continuation of Star Wars, Clone Wars. George Lucas sold LucasFilms Ltd. to Disney so he’s now hanging low and not openly working on any projects. But it is suspected he could be working on another project. I believe his legacy will forever be the Star Wars films. He has won numerous amounts of awards such as the Hugo Award for best director for Raiders of the Lost Ark. He has also won Golden Globes, MTV Awards, and Saturn Awards for various movies. But he will be remembered as a creator, director, and

In the early drafts of Star War: Luke Skywalker was an old Resistance’s general, Han Solo was some kind of a frog alien, the dark side of the force was called “Bogan”, and the light side of the force was called “Ashla” (Biography). Lucas struggled to put his story together and made it coherent. It was too dense and messy, and design of his characters was just equally as bad. But after the third draft, the story finally showed a little improvement, with a more solid plot and character developments. In 1976, Lucas finally decided to use it for his production of the films with a small budget of 7.5 million dollars offered from 20th Century

Star Wars was first released in May 1977. It is a series of movies based on an epic space adventure and was created by George Lucas. The franchise depicts a galaxy described as "far, far away" in the distant past, and portrays two important characterization like the Jedi as a representation of good, in conflict with the Sith, their evil counterpart. The overall box office produced over 4.38 billion dollars, making Star Wars one of the fifth highest grossing films of all time. Many believe the film would not have reached its highest without the prominently themed music created by John Williams. The renowned themes 'the force' and 'imperial march' are one of Williams most widely known music scores and motion pictures of all history. John Williams was able to vividly depict the characters conflict between good and evil through the use of musical elements like timbre, pitch and duration to create the individual characters.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is final chapter in an epic story of good versus evil. The script was written by George Lucas and was released in theatres on May 25, 1983 (IMDb.com). It was the third film released in the Star Wars saga, following Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (IMDb.com). At the time, Episode VI concluded the story of Luke Skywalker and his Rebel friends fighting against Darth Vader and the evil Empire.

The world of Star Wars novel is filled with work from just about every sub genre one can think of, all while remaining in the bounds of the space opera that is Star Wars. From the horror and suspense found in Joe Schreiber's Death Troopers to the comedy